Direct visualization of boron dopant distribution and coordination in individual chemical vapor deposition nanocrystalline B-doped diamond grains

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lu, Ying Gang ^a   Turner, Stuart ^a   Verbeeck, Johan ^a   Janssens, Stoffel D ^b,c   Wagner, Patrick ^b,c   Haenen, Ken ^b,c   Van Tendeloo, Gustaaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR DARK FIELD SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; BORON DISTRIBUTION; BORON-DOPED; DIAMOND GRAINS; DIAMOND LATTICES; DIRECT VISUALIZATION; DOPANT DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND FILMS; NANOCRYSTALLINES; PRISTINE DIAMOND; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; TWIN BOUNDARIES;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIAMOND FILMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84864443101     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4738885     Document Type: Article

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